20 Question Quiz
Aboriginal Awareness

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Answer the following 20 questions on Aboriginal Awarness issues to the best of your ability.
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Question 1

Besides Indians, what other Aboriginal groups are there in Canada?

Question 2

What are the 3 categories of Indians in Canada?

Question 3

If 100% of all treaty Indians are status, why is it that only 50% of status Indians are treaty? This is not a trick question.

Question 4

Where in North America is the "historic Metis homeland"?

Question 5

What is the average annual payment Treaty Indians receive?

Question 6

Which of the 3 Aboriginal groups in Canada are referred to as First Nations?

Question 7

Are the Inuit people of Canada governed by the Indian Act?

Question 8

What year did the Bill C-31 Indians first appear in Canada?

Question 9

Do non-status Indians qualify for tax exemption under the Indian Act?

Question 10

What year did the first Metis people appear in Canada?

Question 11

Since 50% of all "registered status Indians" are not "treaty Indians" why do they receive treaty benefits (such as tax exemptions for income earned only on reserves, medical benefits, housing subsidies, paid education) when they have never signed any treaties?

Question 12

As Aboriginal people, do Metis people pay income tax?

Question 13

Which is the only Canadian province where some Metis people have a land base?

Question 14

Eskimos are a tribe of Aboriginal people that live on the northwest coast of Alaska, are American, and have never been to Canada other than to visit. What are the Aboriginal people that live in Canada's arctic region called?

Question 15

Of the 640 First Nations governments in Canada, how many have achieved self-government?

Question 16

There are 2666 pieces of land in Canada that are reserved for status Indians called reserves; the total combined land mass of all 2666 reserves is smaller than the land mass of the Navaho reservation in Arizona, USA.

Question 17

There were a total of 130 residential schools in Canada operated by four Christian churches. An estimated 150,000 Aboriginal children attended residential schools. What percentage of Aboriginal children attending Residential Schools died either at the school or shortly after returning home?
15%, 25%, 35%, 50%

Question 18

In what year did the last Indian Residential School close?

Question 19 A

Name a Treaty Right.

Question 19 B

Name an Aboriginal Right.

Question 20

Name a national Aboriginal political organization.